Emmerson mnangagwa, has urged the country to unite. Hes due to be inaugurated tomorrow good heading a football lead to dementia . New good heading a football lead to dementia 7 new research dementia . New research has commissioned on the brain. And england work hard on day one of the ashes. England enter the day on 1964. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The chancellor has insisted yesterdays budget will address britains problems with productivity, amid gloomy forecasts for economic growth. The office for budget responsibility said it expects the uk economy to expand by less than 2 for the next four years, partly because of persistently low productivity growth. A separate report by the think tank the Resolution Foundation has warned of the longest fall in peoples Living Standards since records began more than 60 years ago. Labour said Philip Hammond was cut off from the real lives of people. Lets get more from our assistant Political Editor norman smith. The day after the bud
Of the antarctic, has been re measured, and now takes top honours. And trouble in the tunnel. Milk and water thrown at mourinho in a clash with celebrating city players after yesterdays derby. Its monday the 11th of december. I many mcveigh and welcome to bbc newsroom live large live parts of the uk are continuing to suffer large parts of the uk are continuing to suffer from the effects of heavy snow that fell over the weekend. Many schools are closed, homes are without power and freezing temperatures overnight have led to fears of black ice on the roads. The deluge of snow was compounded with freezing temperatures overnight. Minus 12 was the coldest, in the appropriately named chillingham barns in northumberland. Amber weather warnings have been issued by the met office for much of england, scotland and the whole of wales and Northern Ireland. More than a thousand schools have been closed across the uk, including more than 450 schools in wales, every council run school in birmingham,
Will hand back control of the gaza strip to fatah. And brexit negotiater, barnier, says talks are deadlocked and he will not ask next weeks eu summit to begin on the future relationship with britain. We get reaction from brussels and london. Brent im brent goff. Good to have a with us. Too expensive and antiisrael, the two reasons the u. S. Is giving for its withdrawal from unesco, the Cultural Organization created by the u. S. More than 70 years ago. The u. S. State department pointing to unpaid dues, a need for reform, and what it says is the Organizations Co ntinuing israel bias. Now israel says it will leave unesco. Unesco promotes peace and his were known for its World Heritage program, protecting cultural sites such as the statue of liberty, and the city of venice. We go to our correspondents, tania kramer and carolina chimoy. Caret li na carolina, how big of a loss is this for unesco . Carolina i would like to point out that six years ago under the obama administration, the u. S
Good morning from westminster. The bill giving theresa may the power to trigger the formal process of leaving the eu has cleared its final hurdle in parliament, and will now become law. The Brexit Secretary, david davis, said the uk was on the threshold of its most important negotiation for a generation. Our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Contents, 118, not contents, 274, so the not contents have it. With those words the government achieved what the Supreme Court told ministers they had to, parliamentary approval to start brexit. The debates here in the House Of Lords and in the House Of Commons are, for now at least, done. One thing came out very clearly in all the debates. It is uncertainty that is bad for business, it is uncertainty that is bad forforeign nationals in the uk, it is bad for uk nationals resident in eu countries. I think the quicker we get on with this process the better. The House Of Commons had overturned two suggested changes to the plans new Law Guar
I am Francine Lacqua with jonathan ferro. Jonathon the city of london is probably happy it is the weekend, because the market is closed. Francine they are watching us. They are raising analyst reports, trying to figure out how monday will pan out. Jonathon shall we get you up this bead on how the carnage laid out. Beginning in equities. The ftse closing down the three Percentage Points on this day. The big carnage was in mainland europe you the dax down 6. 8 . The biggest oneday drop since 2008 and the biggest oneday drop on record for the european banks. At a 99aryen yesterday handle at one point. A big stand out the bond market and i will whip you through. Down 14 basis points on bonds. Francine the problem is that there are so many angles. We have to look at the European Union. How or if they are negotiating. We heard they want to kick out the u. K. And the political turmoil. Jonathon listen to european leaders. I regret the vote of the United Kingdom but i respect it. It is a matte